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Welcome to the great vacillation nation that I call America. I’m whole heartily convinced that we should no longer put fluoride into our water supplies. We should replace it with Ritalin and get this country to focus on something other than the next episode of American Idol.
Picture taken by Fish January 20th, 2009
One year ago I sat 40 feet from Barrack Obama as he took his oath. On that day I was fooled into thinking we were a nation of change. On the 20th of January the Marine One helicopter took off from the front steps of the Capitol taking with it the worst modern day administration ever to hold office. As I watched the crowds below give the one finger wave goodbye to Bush and the first lady, I thought to myself, “Our work has only just begun”. But if only for that moment I really believed that we live in a change nation. After all we did something I never thought possible in my lifetime, we voted an African American into office. For the first time in my life we, as a nation, judged this man by his character. If we could do that then we could certainly allow this man the time to do what was right. How wrong I was?
When Obama took office he inherited two wars, a recession, a middle class that was being raped on a daily basis, corporations that feed off the little guy, record-breaking deficits, a Republican health-care system that was simple – don’t get sick, a country that was viewed as international clowns, & a complete neglect of the environment. When Obama took office he had to turn the US around and get it back on the right track, after all it took the previous administration 8 years to screw us this hard. So it’s realistic that we as citizens of these Untied States would be patient in this rebuilding effort. Guess again.
Instead we begin to get upset. We were critical 60 days into the Obama administration; we were worse after 120 and spiteful after 150 days. So much so that we started electing Republicans, not because of qualifications, just out of spite. Now where I don’t completely agree with all of our Presidents policies I can tell you this, our standing in the world is up and has stayed there. We finally have a man in office that told us the truth even when he knew it would hurt his poll numbers. This administration doesn’t conduct itself by scarring the American People with a rainbow of terrorist’s colors. This administration tells you how it’s going to be, and we’re not used to that. We’re used to being hit by the bus. We’re used to being talk at as opposed to – talked to.
For eight long years we watched Bush and Cheney use the Constitution as toilet paper. We sat by while they waged two wars nobody wanted with a 1-seat majority in the senate. We watched as Bush and Cheney broke laws, invoked executive privileges we’ve never seen nor heard of. So it almost stands to reason that we’re impatient with the Obama administration. Because let’s face it, if Bush Cheney wanted health care they would have rammed it down our throats with such vim and vigor that we wouldn’t have known what hit us. But they didn’t want health care, they wanted war, they wanted us scared into believing they were protecting us when they weren’t even giving the soldiers they marched into that war the proper amour.
So to all of you that think after one year that all would be well, I offer this – wake up! Barrack Obama is a statesman, a gentleman, and he believes in the Democratic Process. He believes you catch more flies with sugar then you do with vinegar. But we’re not used to that process anymore. We’ve grown accustomed to having everything delivered to us on the end of a bat.
It’s easy to disparage, it’s easy to defer blame to a change President. Now is a time for patience, not ridicule. I’m not saying you’ve got to agree with everything the man does; I’m just saying you need to think it through. Are you mad at Barrack Obama for being a statesman or are you still mad at Bush for not being a statesman? What the hell is up with that?
